TUCSON, ARIZONA -- A Catholic school in Tucson is receiving help from
the LDS Church. In order to commemorate the settling of the Salt Lake
Valley in 1847, the LDS Church engages in community service projects.
This year, 100 volunteers in Tucson painted and cleaned Sata Cruz
Catholic School on 22nd Street and South Sixth Avenue.

"We wanted to do something that would be meaningful and would make a
difference to the community," said Clint Parry, project organizer.
"They don't have a whole lot of money, and they don't have the
manpower to get all of this stuff done."

The project was sorely needed as Santa Cruz, which serves an
economically impoverished part of Tucson, has only a part-time
maintenance worker. There simply is too much work to be done for a
single, part-time worker to manage it all. The volunteers cleaned the
grounds and made more long-lasting improvements to the building, such
as installing doors and wall paneling.

Planning for the project began last year, when Mormons called the
Tucson city office to locate worthy projects. A city employee whose
child attends the school suggested that Santa Cruz would benefit from
the assistance. The school struggles because its tuition is less than
the actual cost of education.

Arnold Robles, the maintenance worker at Santa Cruz, said that it
paid about $1,000 for materials, but estimated that labor for the
improvements would have cost several thousand dollars. "We're really
grateful to these people," he said.